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Refo500 Academic Studies, Volume 1 : Counsel and Conscience - Lutheran Casuistry and Moral Reasoning After the Reformation
Overview: In Lutheran Germany of the post-Reformation era (ca. 1580-1750), a genre of pastoral, ethical writings was developed that consisted in casuistry and in topically or thematically related theological counsels, intended to instruct the consciences of Christians. Examining the Thesaurus Consiliorum Et Decisionum (1623/1671), the author illustrates the different ways in which Lutherans reasoned about moral matters. By examining these counsels on divorce and remarriage, one sees various arguments being made, and several sources of authority aside from Scripture being used. Although this literature is remarkably uniform and principled in the advice it gives, the counsels present an irreconcible diversity of authority and advice, a diversity that in cases on marriage presents a picture of the condition of marital practice at the time.
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